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Satoru Iwata’s Quality of Life initiative may yet live on. Nintendo said in February that the company’s only officially revealed QOL device, a sleep monitor, had been ditched. This seemed to compound existing rumours that the company was planning to ditch QOL altogether, with enthusiasm for the idea believed to …

Forget the toys-to-life crisis. More than 620,000 UK gamers have bought Disney Infinity 3, LEGO Dimensions or Skylanders Superchargers. That’s a rise of 21.2 per cent compared with the number of toys-to-life starter packs sold during the same period a year before. The data follows concerns for the genre sparked …

Dave Bradley joins from Future,Creative Assembly names new COO and HansHartmann joins Oculus. Steel Media appoints new operations manager The Pocket Gamer publisher has appointed Dave Bradley as operations manager. Bradley joins from Future, where he first started as staff writer in 1997. His most recent position was editor-in-chief of …

Today we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games, and will find our who has won the six award categories at a special ceremony in London. But if you can’t make it, don’t worry,you can log on and watch the whole thing on Twitch.tv live. TheWomen in Games Awards 2016can …

There’s a new major player in the virtual reality market. Google last night lifted the lid on its new Daydream platform, which takes what it began with Google Cardboard and brings it to a new higher tech territory. VR features are to be embedded directly into the Android OS itself, …

Studio director Dennis Rohlfing recalls the German developer’s search for a new platform to conquer as the browser sector continues to lose momentum

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The latest entry in Sony’s Uncharted franchise has been a smash hit in Japan, according to data from Famitsu. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End sold 124,028 units in its first week, clearly in the lead ahead of Nintendo’s Kirby: Planet Robobot, which sold 241,134 copies. Third place was also a …

Last week will go down as one of the most significant in the history of esports. Riot dropped the ban hammer in League of Legends, compelling the sale of League Championship Series teams Renegades and Team Impulse, and Challenger Series team Team Dragon Knights. Meanwhile, the Electronic Sports League (ESL) …

Changes to Articles of Incorporation highlight further licensing of IP rights, as well as expansion into health technology and restaurants